Peyton Potter Rides His Unicorn: Children’s Poems

New Feral Press (Oyster Bay, NY)

May, 2021

by Norbert Krapf




New Feral Press has released Norbert Krapf’s chapbook of fourteen children’s poems, Peyton Potter Rides His Unicorn. Eventually these poems will be included in a longer collection of children’s poems, The Reading Owl’s Kingdom. Another chapbook of twenty-two children’s poems is forthcoming before long from New Feral Press, Living with the Animals, which will also be part of the longer collection just mentioned.

The Peyton Potter chapbook sells for $12.00, including shipping. Interested readers should contact the author through the Messenger feature of Facebook to order the book and receive his address to send a check.



The following is the text of the title poem:

Peyton Potter Rides His Unicorn

Grandson, you are standing on the flat
back of your unicorn riding straight ahead
under a rainbow, no need to wear a hat,

holding in your hand your magic wand
that can take you anywhere your
little boy’s heart and soul may want.

Who are you today? Oh, Harry Potter!
I’m so sorry, magician! I should have known!
Maybe you will have a dragon daughter.

Grandpa, grandpa, her name is Norberta
She’s not my daughter, but my dragon!
You gotta get your Opa act togetha!

My wand can write & conduct a symphony!
My Mama will play her violin very sweetly!
Come on, please, Opa! Please listen to me!

Look it! Here comes my Norberta a-flying.
Grandpa, Opa, you just got to come along.
You are the right Norbert to come riding.






Some of the poems in this chapbook appeared in Flying Island Journal, the online publication of the Indiana Writers Center, The Last Stanza Poetry Journal, and the anthology Words & Other Wild Things: Poems for Children (Brick Street Poetry, 2016). Front cover photo by Elizabeth Lamm-Krapf. Title page drawing by Peyton Benjamin Werner Lamm. Click here for the text of “The Reading Owl’s Kingdom.”

CONTENTS

  • Grandma's Dots' Dunk
  • Beenamas for Beezerk
  • Elizabeth Neesie Beesie Popf
  • Crapola Biscuit
  • Daddy and the Omnibus
  • The Ballad of Peyton
  • Peyton Lamm the Ham
  • Peyton Potter Rides His Unicorn
  • Is Your Grandpa Silly?
  • The Reading Owl's Kingdom
  • Igel Wiggle
  • Squirrel Talk
  • Tree Riddle
  • When I Was a Racoon





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